Jeremy Diddler

noun

Jeremy Diddler

noun

Etymology Name of a character in Raising the Wind, an 1803 play by James Kenney.

1

Dated A needy, artful dealer; a confidence man.

The Jeremy Diddlers will have designs upon your purse; the politicians upon your influence; and mammas, who have marriageable daughters, upon your person1854, Lucien Bonaparte Chase, English Serfdom and American Slavery:

Related terms: diddle

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